application and was promptly appointedchief counsel for the Trade and CommerceAgency in 2000.

Three years later, she was snatchedaway by the governor’s legal affairs office.Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Changhad just been appointed to the bench andwas leaving her post as chief deputy legalaffairs secretary. The office was lookingfor someone to handle Indian gaming-compact negotiations, which had been partof Chang’s duties. “Ms. Doi was our firstand only choice,” recalls Chang. “She wasextremely bright, hard-working and, mostimportantly, had the right temperamentand professionalism needed for such ademanding position.”After the Davis recall in 2003, Doireturned to private practice, joiningthe government group at Livingston &Mattesich. “It was a great fit, comingright out of government,” Doi says. “GeneLivingston and Jim Mattesich really knewgovernment, and I learned a lot about howto take what I learned from working in thelegal affairs office into private practice.”After Livingston & Mattesich mergedwith international powerhouse GreenbergTraurig, Doi moved in 2007 to the smallerMurphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld, joiningattorney Frank Fedor as he expanded thefirm’s health-care litigation group.

She found homing in on health carelaw “incredibly fulfilling.” For one thing,she says, it taps into that “legal nerdbrain.” For another, it focuses on anessential issue. “It’s such a basic needthat people have, and there’s such a costto society when we don’t address it at afundamental level,” Doi says. “Any systemthat’s going to increase the primary careso that there are fewer emergency roomvisits is going to be good.”She knows all about the high cost ofemergency care from years of workingwith providers. In one high-profile case,Doi represented some air-ambulancecompanies that were challenging areduction in payments from workers’compensation insurers. The state andfederal courts said they lacked jurisdiction,so Doi filed hundreds of claims directlythrough the workers’ compensation board.It finally decided to exempt air-ambulancecompanies from the new fee schedule.

“Kathryn is a quick study with a specialcapacity to grasp complex issues andreduce them to writing in a way that isvery understandable,” says Livingston, atGreenberg Traurig. He recalls a case theyworked on together years ago involvingdisability-income insurance. “She prepareda settlement agreement that is still beingused today by the parties.”Doi says she’s always enjoyed followinga non-linear path. “I never decided firmlythat I was going to end up in one particularplace,” she says. “That approach hasworked out quite well for me.”As she expands her practice at HansonBridgett, Doi is finding the firm to be agood fit. “I’ve been a bit like Goldilocks withlaw firms: Greenberg Traurig was too big,Murphy Austin was too small, and HansonBridgett is just right,” she says.

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